SOAP LAKE - Even a knee injury to quarterback Alex Zavala couldn't derail the Mabton express on its way to a 48-0 win this past Friday night against Soap Lake (1-7, 2-7), which improved the team's record to 9-0 on the season.

ELLENSBURG - Pullman High School won the District Championship this weekend, running away from the field of 11. Sunnyside High School finished in 8th place but saw one of its swimmers advance to state.

The Sunnyside School District received a nice surprise last week. Because of increased enrollment, the square footage the district has to build on has been increased to 67,000 square feet. This new amount is also covered under the state-matching fund which matches approximately 83 percent.

The issue before us this election is really pretty straight forward. Mike Farmer and Bruce Ricks worked and kept their word to deal with the foul stench that covered our town. The smell hurt our health, our business and our image.

Moving experience

I was reading the article in Tuesday's Daily Sun News detailing Sunnyside High School Athletic Director Bill Daley's presentation to Rotarians about the school district's plans for new athletic facilities. I have long supported the idea that the district needs quality facilities that the community can be proud of.

Thursday, October 27

GRANGER - Brenda Sipes stood in a third grade classroom at Roosevelt Elementary School Wednesday afternoon. After asking students what drugs are illegal and handing out bracelets to students who could come up with answers and showing a display of drugs and candy that look similar she had the students take a pledge.

Ten years is a long time to let your hair grow. It's also quite a shock to lose that much hair with one snip of a pair of scissors, but that's what happened to 15-year-old Jessica Alicia Vidales - and it was her choice.

EVA J. PALMER

Friday, October 21

YAKIMA - The Mabton girls volleyball team traveled to Yakima Thursday night, hoping to build momentum with a win before they start District play. Instead they lost three out of four games to Riverside Christian in their final regular season match.

GRANDVIEW - It's tough for any member of the Grandview High School volleyball team to stand out from the pack. That's because nearly all of the Lady 'Hounds are exceptionally skilled at what they do on the court.

OUTLOOK - Lisa Daniel has been busy lately. She and Chantile Hutchinson are co-chairing this year's annual Outlook Elementary School Halloween Carnival, which will be held on Saturday, Oct. 29, from 5 to 8 p.m.

Despite a 93 percent Hispanic population, many of whom are migrant and miss school at different times throughout the year due to seasonal work, Mabton High School graduated 94 percent of its senior class and 82 percent went to four-year colleges last year, Superintendent Sandra Pasiero-Davis said.

This year students will get the chance to show what they've learned rather than hanging their heads while listening to teachers discuss their work at Harrison Middle School's student-led parent-teacher conferences, Doug Rogers, assistant principal, said.

Gayle Hays, owner of Sunnyside Beauty Academy, put in three days at an accredidation workshop in St. Louis, Mo. to learn what hoops she has to jump through to be sure students are eligible for federal monetary support.

MABTON - On paper, last Friday's game should have easily gone Mabton's way. After all, the Pateros Billy Goats brought only a 2-2 league record into Mabton, and the undefeated Vikings were playing on their home field.

Grandview pastor wears many hats

Daniel Sauber, who admitted to killing and burying a woman in his yard in Grandview five years ago, was sentenced to life imprisonment at a hearing before Judge Michael Schwab in Yakima County Superior Court Oct. 12.

You can train a dog to fetch a newspaper, or train a child to chew with his mouth closed...but train a tomato plant to grow upright in a hemmed in garden space that won't accommodate a sprawling plant?

Engaged couple to wed Oct. 22

With the departure this week of Tom Denchel Ford Country from Sunnyside, civic and business leaders are looking to the future and hope to bring a new venture to the former dealership site on Sixth Street.

Daniel Sauber, who walked into the Grandview Police Department August 3, 2005, and told officers he had killed a woman five years ago, pled guilty to first-degree manslaughter Monday, Oct. 10, in Yakima County Superior Court.

MANSON - Senior Pablo Sanchez is accustomed to being the Mabton High School football team's workhorse. Last Friday night, he again did his part in keeping the Vikings unbeaten on the year, scoring four TD's in Mabton's 47-20 rout of the Manson Trojans.

Sunnyside police officers responding to an anonymous call at 9:51 a.m., Oct. 7, reporting a burglary in progress, apprehended two of four people who were running from a residence in the 400 block of S. 13th Street.

Sunnyside's Promise is sponsoring a book sale this Saturday, Oct. 8, to help Sunnyside High School students raise funds to attend the National Communities Anti-Drug Coalitions of America Youth Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C.

Thursday, October 6

WEST VALLEY - With 67-0, 63-6 and 49-2 losses to open the season, the Sunnyside High School freshman football team may have not been very optimistic on its bus ride to powerhouse West Valley this past Monday.

WENATCHEE - Grandview High School's volleyball team may have settled for runner-up honors at this past Saturday's Wenatchee Invitational, but considering who the Lady Greyhounds' opponents were, they came home champions.